Ben Cardin: “We want respect for human rights because that is not only our values, but it is also important for a stable country.”

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.

Why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?

We need to consider how we deal with that.

We are going to do something about this.